In the past, when the 35 Buddhas were bodhisattvas, they made manyprayers to be able to benefit sentient beings, to easily purify ourdefilements and negative karma. When they achieved enlightenment, theyachieved the Buddha’s ten qualities or powers, one of which is the powerof prayer. So, their names have the power of all those past prayers. Thatis why, when sentient beings recite their names, they have so much powerto purify defilements and eons of negative karma. Every single quality the35 Buddhas attained was in order to benefit sentient beings.